Re: String literals and wide_string literals - how?

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Apr 20, 12:16 pm, "Randy Brukardt" <r...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> Now throw in some operator overloading:
>
>     function "+" (Left, Right : Roman_Numeral) return Roman_Numeral;
>
> and you can work solely in Roman_Numerals.

It would be an interesting challenge to write this function---without
cheating.  That is, without resorting to converting the operands to
regular integers, adding them the normal way, and converting the
result back.  No, no, no.  Do it the way the Romans would have had to
do it.  Might make for a good programming exercise.

And then, if someone gets this right, tell them to implement "*".


>     Total : constant Roman_Numeral := Claw_Generic_Price +
> Claw_Support_Price;
>
> Cool, even if rather useless. (I don't think I'd want to try to calculate
> sales tax this way!!)

Given that a lot of people had to calculate a lot of taxes this past
week, I'm sure they're all thankful that they didn't have to fill out
Form MXL this way.

                                         -- Adam